Three Kingdoms Episode 3

The first few mins of this episode focus on how Lau Bei went to seek Z ‘s help- with Shun’s help. To cut long story short,  both Lau Bei & Z were impressed with each other, thus Z agree to help Lau Bei. Meanwhile Shun is very happy & is expecting Z to appoint him as one of his assistant. Also good news for him as his sister sms him telling him he’s off the suspect list, as they caught the real culprit & also confirm a date for his possible return thru time travel. But his happiness is short lived as Z didn’t choose him to be his assistant. HE was very sad & angry & wanted Z to pay for his mistake. He joined Advisor  Hon , whose very jealous of Z’s status.

Meanwhile Guan Yu and Cheung Fei  thought nothing much of Z  since he has no solution to their immediate problem. They are more familiar with  Hon & at least he could provide a course of action.  But Lai Bei, has great faith in Z, he highlighted that  Z may not have a solution now but he is not afraid to admit he doesn’t have one- that’s wisdom. Meanwhile Kan joins the Lau Bei army.

Next day they found a Cao Cao spy & killed him. Someone is a double agent in their own camp & has been passing maps to this spy. Z came out with an idea of how to smoke him out. The place these 2 men met is overgrown with a certain kind of grass/shrubs only found in that region, so they can start by eliminating those who does not have these grass attached to their clothes. They finally narrow down to eight. They would have to kill all 8 of them if not for Shun. He remembers  a TVB series back home the one where Bowie is the detective that reads people’s body language ( a rip off from Amercia’s “lie to me”) . He pick out the real culprit by reading his body language….haha… score some points here. Even Z was impressed!

Thoughts:   I’m a little disappointed that they didn’t use a more prominent actress to play Yuet Ying as she has quite a big role here, & after all she pairs up with RL !  even though they tried hard, there don’t seem to have chemistry between the two. Simiarly I find Tavia & Kenneth ma to be ill matched as well.